The guitar didn't make its way out of Spain until the very end of the 17th
century, had no real currency elsewhere until the early 19th. It had been a
folk instrument as well as a "classical" instrument in Spain but north of
the Pyrenees was a salon instrument until rather later than the 1830's. I
don't know the details thereafter. The question is really about performance
practice: the difference between the Childe Ballads, for instance,
accompanied by cello or fiddle as opposed to the same songs sung and
guitar-accompanied by the same performer. The style we associate with
"folk" is a recent commercial invention. It would be nice to know its
antecedents.
A fair number of instruments are recent inventions and "migrated" by way of
commercial promotion: accordian, saxaphone, banjo, autoharp, electric
guitar, to name a few.
At 07:21 PM 7/24/2000 +1000, you wrote:
> Hi Mark, What a question, all acoustic musical instruments
>are of folk origin Mark, Apollo was walking along a beach one day when
>he happened upon the shell of a dead turtle in his way it's dried skin
>stretched out over the base of it's shell in string like form he plucked
>the skin strings and behold music was born. Migration did the rest.
>Harmonically Yours. Rob. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark
> Weiss To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Sunday, 23 July 2000 1:45
> Subject: Query
>Anyone out there know the history of the guitar becoming a folk instrument
>and then the preeminent folk instrument in the
>anglo-hiberno-caledonio-afro-american tradition?
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